Photos by
Alysia Steele Meek School Assistant Professor
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hen I have a lot of free time, which hasn’t been lately, I love taking photos of newborns. I haven’t done it in several years because of work commitments and a busy schedule, but photographing babies is relaxing and fun for me. Here are two from my personal collection. The baby is Henry and he was about 5 days old when I photographed him. His mother is someone I met on an assignment when I worked in Columbus, Ohio, in 2010. I’d worked with her years prior to this moment and she liked my photography. When she was pregnant, she asked me to photograph her, and then when Henry was born, the family called me again. Henry is snuggled in his father’s arms. I purposely went when it was naptime to capture a peaceful moment. It took some convincing to get dad to take his shirt off, but I assured him he wasn’t the primary focus of the photo. This is one of my all-time favorite images.
34 MEEK SCHOOL
